Roseate Tern Habitat Model go to: USFWS Gulf of Maine Watershed Habitat Analysis go to: Species Table Feedback: We welcome your suggestions on improving this model!. Long Craig Island, managed by the Scottish Wildlife Trust, is the only site within the Forth Island SPA, where the LIFE Project is involved. We depend on the goodwill and financial support of people like you. Roseate terns have a very buoyant and light and flight, with relatively shallow and fast wingbeats. Roseate tern productivity has also been affected by increased human recreation and disturbance in coastal areas, as well as by predation by great black-backed and herring gulls, owls and nocturnal-feeding mammals. The Roseate tern has a similar size to the common tern but it is very white-looking, and has long tail-streamers, and its head is black with a black beak on a reddish base. For more information. During summer the underparts of adults have a pinkish tinge, which gives this bird its name. Draft Date: March, 2001 Species: Roseate tern, Sterna dougallii dougallii Use of Study Area Resources: Reproduction; Roseate terns nest on outer coastal beach and island habitats from Nova Scotia to New York (Gochfeld et al. … It often forages out in the ocean and nests on hard-to-visit islands. The RSPB is the UK charity working to secure a healthy environment for birds and all wildlife, helping to create a better world for everyone. In 2017, there were 165 pairs of common terns nesting there and in 2016, the wardens recorded a roseate tern and common tern hybrid pair. The Roseate Tern is a bird of elegant proportions and dazzling white breeding plumage, accented with a black cap, dark bill, and pale rosy breast. It swoops and dives for small, schooling fish, its extra-long tail fluttering behind it. The Roseate Tern’s critical habitat, as well as planned projects and activities for the recovery of the species, are described in detail in the amended recovery strategy (2010) and the action plan (2015), both available on the Species at Risk Public Registry.